Given that Tidal will likely, and ironically, utilize AI to determine what music is considered AI, the decision to block monetization of AI categorized music is likely also unfair to artists who use spectral DSP and/or sample from AI generated sources though largely compose music in a manner similar to other common computer mediated music studio workflows. Such music may very well land in the realm of false positives. This is another step by streaming platforms which funnels and restricts musical creativity.

I like what I see from their policy. They accept that it’s part of the industry landscape and also say it’s not monetizeable. They will likely revisit and revise their stance as things change.

I strongly agree on labeling the generated content.

That's fair, allow AI slop but tag obvious AI slop as such. Hopefully they add an option to hide detected AI slop, something I wish Youtube had for instance.

Good now add a setting to hide all AI content.

> Tidal will accept AI-generated music.

Okey, that's all I needed to know. They could just put this one sentence in the doc and be done with it.

Interesting discussion with Jeff Bridges on Suno: https://x.com/adityarao310/status/2071488913630204209/video/...

Am I the only one getting a "Page not found"?

Edit: Nevermind, see riddley's comment. That's what I get for being logged in, I guess?

A very reasonable policy, prevents AI Slop from flooding the platform due to misaligned creator / consumer incentives

An interesting problem in the background of this is the cope.

Which is to say, there are a lot of people who think "they can tell AI" in music, wherein you can cue the famous picture of the airplane with the bulletholes.

I'm not sure what you can do about it, and part of me hates it too -- but youtube has absolutely given me 100% AI generated music that's full of soul and better than, say, Bruno Mar,s IMHO.

(For those interested, my two examples would be the gospel "Thong Song" and the fake rock-n-roll dis track against 50 cent "by TI's Son," 2 quarters...)

The main thing that I learned from this is that Tidal is still alive.

Anyway the battle with slop is curation. Eurodance by AI is as shitty as eurodance by humans.